Quote: the artist "strange if the bit about tackling in the air is true - if that rule is in for player safety then wherever you are on the field should carry equal risk of serious injury, can you imaging the outcry if a serious injury was caused by such an action'"
I don't think it is. There's nothing in the rules which explicitly says that the in goal area is different.
One rule I hadn't realised about ball stealing...
Quote: the artist "Where a player steals the ball from a player on whom he is effecting a tackle, play will be allowed to continue.
Where two or more players are effecting the same tackle – irrespective of whether all but one “drops off” the tackle,
and the ball is subsequently taken from the tackled player, a penalty will be awarded against the player or players effecting the tackle'"
